Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Calculation of the quantities of reactants and products in a chemical reaction.
- noun The quantitative relationship between reactants and products in a chemical reaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.
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- noun uncountable, chemistry The
study andcalculation ofquantitative (measurable)relationships of thereactants andproducts inchemical reactions (chemical equations). - noun countable, chemistry The quantitative relationship between the reactants and products of a specific reaction or equation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our study suggests that fitness of invasive zebra mussels is not constrained by nutrient stoichiometry which is likely to be important for their proliferation in novel ecosystems.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rahmat Naddafi et al. 2009
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The following article makes no attempt to be a 20-minute Chem 101 crash course for the perplexed, but, it is hoped, should at least provide you with counter-ammunition the next time someone corners you at a party and starts dropping terms such as stoichiometry as the temperature of your beer rises slowly but inexorably from cellar to attic.
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Also, much of what we take away from secondary education is not specific facts or processes I don't know about you but I'd have some major difficulty solving a stoichiometry problem now, but ratherÂhowÂto think.
Cody Pomeranz: The Squandered Superpower: How America Has Stunted Imagination Cody Pomeranz 2011
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Also, much of what we take away from secondary education is not specific facts or processes I don't know about you but I'd have some major difficulty solving a stoichiometry problem now, but ratherhowto think.
Cody Pomeranz: The Squandered Superpower: How America Has Stunted Imagination Cody Pomeranz 2011
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Also, much of what we take away from secondary education is not specific facts or processes I don't know about you but I'd have some major difficulty solving a stoichiometry problem now, but ratherhowto think.
Cody Pomeranz: The Squandered Superpower: How America Has Stunted Imagination Cody Pomeranz 2011
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One lecturer admitted to cribbing a definition of stoichiometry from Wikipedia.
The Fate of the Kilo Weighs Heavily on the Minds of Metrologists Jeanne Whalen 2011
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So the thought hit me that it might be interesting to ponder the stoichiometry - the math behind the chemistry - of the TBTF rebalancing issue.
Dennis Santiago: After Bastille Day: Is There a Future for Big Banking? 2010
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Berkeley used to have an experiment in which Chem 1 students prepared cuprous sulfide and determined its stoichiometry ratio of Cu:S.
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Students, expecting stoichiometry, nudged their results toward a stoichiometric result, with most rounding up to 2:1, but some rounding down to 1:1.
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So the thought hit me that it might be interesting to ponder the stoichiometry - the math behind the chemistry - of the TBTF rebalancing issue.
Dennis Santiago: After Bastille Day: Is There a Future for Big Banking? 2010
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